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Two U.S. soldiers and a civilian interpreter killed in suspected Islamic State attack in Syria
A view of damaged Syrian General Staff Headquarters following multiple Israeli airstrikes in central Damascus, Syria on July 16, 2025. Bakr Al Kasem | Anadolu | Getty Images Three U.S. military personnel — two Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter — were killed on Saturday by a suspected Islamic State attacker who targeted a convoy […]
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Todd Combs’ stellar 15-year career at Berkshire started with an unsolicited letter to Charlie Munger
Todd Combs, one of Warren Buffett’s handpicked investment lieutenants and a key executive at Geico, Berkshire Hathaway’ s crown jewel insurance business, is leaving the conglomerate after a 15-year tenure that helped define the firm’s post-Buffett transition. Combs, 54, first caught the attention of Buffett’s late partner Charlie Munger, who famously recounted receiving an unsolicited […]
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Belarus frees Nobel winner Bialiatski, opposition figure Kalesnikava as U.S. eases potash sanctions
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia September 9, 2021. Mikhail Voskresensky | Kremlin Sputnik | via Reuters Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava after two days […]
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MacKenzie Scott announced another $7.1 billion in 2025 charitable donations—she’s now given away $26.3 billion since 2019
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has unveiled the final tally for her 2025 charitable donations, which totaled $7.17 billion in gifts to roughly 225 organizations, she wrote in a blog post published on Tuesday. “This dollar total will likely be reported in the news, but any dollar amount is a vanishingly tiny fraction of the personal […]
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End of ‘The Berkshire Way’? Combs’ departure isn’t only big change as Buffett transition nears
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Todd Combs’ surprise departure from Berkshire Hathaway got most of the attention when it was announced this week. There were also, however, several additional personnel […]
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Wall Street’s most overbought stocks this week don’t include any tech names
Wall Street’s most overbought stocks this week don’t include any technology stocks, a reflection of investors continuing to flee the group in favor of more value-oriented parts of the market. This week, investors cashed in recent gains on high-flying, artificial intelligence growth stocks, rotating instead to overlooked other areas of the market, such as financials, […]
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Today is Dick Van Dyke’s 100th birthday: His tips for a long, healthy life—’sometimes I feel like I’m 15 again’
Today, Dick Van Dyke is officially 100 years old. Born on Dec. 13, 1925, the “Mary Poppins” actor took Hollywood by storm with his singing and dancing, and became an Emmy, Grammy and Tony award-winning legend. Now, Van Dyke has earned a new title: centenarian. Over the course of his life, the performer has shared […]
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SpaceX insider share sale sets $800 billion valuation amid possible IPO, Reuters reports
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is prepared for launch carrying NASA’s IMAP mission, which will study the boundary of the Sun’s heliosphere and other scientific payloads, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Joe Skipper | Reuters SpaceX is preparing to go public next year and has opened a […]
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Fighting continues between Thailand, Cambodia after Trump claim of ceasefire
A person walks past the closed Ban Klong Luk border crossing from Thailand to Cambodia, in Aranyaprathet town in the Thai border province of Sa Kaeo on December 12, 2025. Lillian Suwanrumpha | Afp | Getty Images Cambodia said Thai forces, including fighter jets, continued to strike targets across their disputed border on Saturday morning, […]
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YouTube’s CEO limits his kids’ social media use — other tech bosses do the same
Neal Mohan, the CEO of YouTube speaks during a panel for the Summit for Democracy on March 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images YouTube’s CEO Neal Mohan is the latest in a line of tech bosses who have admitted to limiting their children’s social media use, as the harms of being […]
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